Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-03
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE DOOMED ANARCHISTS testing In The Shadow Of
 Death. ONLY ONE HOPE LEFT THEM. That The Governor Will
 Have Mercy. 0'BRIEN IN PRISON DRESS. Many People Poisoned At
 A Dance.
O'BRIEN IN PRISON DRESS.
rHE ANARCHISTS MUST SWING

l EEsE ANARCHISTS MUST SWING Unless Governor 0gIesby Spares l Their Lives-The Supreme Court De nies the Writ of Error Which Was Brought To It's Consideration.
 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The Supreme i court of the United States, through Chief Justice Waite, refused to day to interfere in 1 the case of the condemned Anarchists at | Chicago The court holds in brief, first, | that the first ten amendments to the eonsti- l tuition are limitations upon federal and not upon State action second, that the jury law of Illinois is, upon it's face, valid and consti- | tutional, and that it is similar in it's provis- ions to the statute of Utah, which was sus- l tained in this court in the case of Hopt against the Territory of Utah; third, that l it does not appear in the record that, upon 1 the evidence, the trial court should have de- clared the juror Sanford incompetent; l fourth, that the objection to the admission of the Johann Most letter and the cross-ex- animation of Spies, which counsel for the prisoners maintained virtually compelled than to testify against themselves, ] were not objected to in the trial l court and that, therefore, no foundation was laid for the exercise of this courts jurisdic- tion; and fifth, that the questions raised by General Butler i'll the case of Spies and Fielden, upon the basis of their foreign tionality, were neither raised or decided, in that State courts and therefore cannot be considered here. The writ of error prayed for must consequently be denied.
 The application to the Supreme court was argued Tn behalf of the Anarchists by distin- guished counsel, all of whom had been at one time or another members of Congress. One of them, Randolph Tucker, has been chair man of the Judiciary committee. General Butler was once member of that committee. General Roger A. Pryor was also Q member of the House, serving before the war. The application did not touch upon the merits of the case. It was purely legal and involved an interpretation of the fourteenth amend ment upon points about which some doubt
 regarded as important aside from the fact
 gallows because of the interpretation that
 is given to these disputed points.
 It has always been with extreme reluctance
 that the United States courts have stepped
 in and assumed jurisdiction in cases finally
 determined by State courts, and never unless
 in these cases there has been clear violation
 of constitutional law of the United States.
 The speedy decision to which the Supreme
 court had come indicates that the court had
 no difficulty in reaching 6 conclusion that
 the Anarchists were convicted without any
 violation of constitutional rights guaranteed
 by the constitution.
 The decision Is surprise to those who
 followed the arguments, and 1t Is believed
 that the Anarchists counsel after the ar9u-
 ment were satisfied that they had not con
 vinced the court that the men were convicted
 through violation of the fundamental law.